Born near Damascus in Syria, Abd al-Rahman, grandson of Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik, was the son of the Umayyad prince Mu ' awiyah ibn Hisham and a Berber mother.

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

Born Farrokh Bomi Bulsara to Indian parents in Zanzibar, he was raised in Panchgani near Mumbai.

Born in Madison County, Kentucky, near the city of Richmond, in 1809, Carson moved at the age of one year with his parents and siblings to a rural area near Franklin, Missouri.

Born at Poissy, near Paris, he was an eighth-generation descendant of Hugh Capet, and thus a member of the House of Capet, and the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile.

Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, United States, he as a youth took the name of ' Mance ' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie (" Mance " being short for emancipation ).

Born in 1641 in Alençon, France, he became a pastor first at Saint-Agobile Champagne, and then at Charenton, near Paris.

Born in Palmi near Reggio di Calabria, Cilea gave early indication of an aptitude for music when at the age of four he heard a performance of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma and was greatly affected by it.

Born near Lexington, Kentucky to Carter Henry Harrison II and Caroline Russell, he was only a few months old when his father died.

Born and raised in Damascus, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem.

Born at Luzzara, near Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, on 20 September 1902,

Born at Wipfeld, near Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia under his original name Konrad Bickel, Celtes pursued his studies at Cologne and the Heidelberg.

Born in Carpineto Romano, near Rome, he was the sixth of the seven sons of Count Ludovico Pecci and his wife Anna Prosperi Buzzi.

Born in Liévin near Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Carpentier began his career by progressing up through the weight divisions, fighting in every division from welterweight upwards.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

Born in Iesi, near Ancona, Italy, Frederick was the son of the emperor Henry VI.

Born Maria Konstantinovna Bashkirtseva in Gavrontsi near Poltava, to a wealthy noble family, she grew up abroad, traveling with her mother across most of Europe.

Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.

Born in Edinburgh, but raised in his mother, Nora Dalyell's family home, The Binns, near Linlithgow, West Lothian ; his father ( Percy ) Gordon Loch, C. I. E., was an Empire civil servant ( Political Agent ) and a scion of the Loch family.

Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt am Main, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child.

Born in Normanby Township near Hanover, Ontario, Brusso's family lived in several locations around Ontario's Grey and Bruce Counties before moving to Galt, Ontario.

Born near Lancaster, educated at LRGS, specilised in water quality and analysis, and originated the concept of valence.

Born Margaret MacDonald, at Tipton, near Wolverhampton, her father was a colliery manager and engineer.

Born in a log cabin near Delaware, Ohio, Fairbanks's ancestry traced back to Puritan followers of Oliver Cromwell, with Jonathan Fayerbankes the first family member to reach America in 1632.

Born in Guilford County, North Carolina, Cannon was the son of Minos Cannon, who served as a soldier in the Continental Army.

Born in Greensboro, he attended Southwest Guilford High School.

Born in Goshen, Connecticut, he moved with his parents to Guilford, Chenango County, New York, in 1806.

Born in Guilford, New York, Willey was educated at the Delaware Literary Institute in Franklin, New York.

The brief biography of Malory goes thus: Born on 6 December 1425 at Morton Court, Shropshire, he was the eldest son of Sir William Malory, representative of Parliament to Cambridgeshire.

Born in London and baptised on 24 January 1664, Vanbrugh was the fourth child ( of 19 ), and eldest surviving son, of Giles Vanbrugh, a London cloth-merchant of Flemish-Protestant background, and his wife Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Barker ( by whom Vanbrugh's mother had the first of her twenty children, Vanbrugh's elder half-sister, Elizabeth ), and daughter of Sir Dudley Carleton, of Imber Court, Thames Ditton, Surrey.

Born in Howland Street, Tottenham Court Road in Camden, London, the son of a police-magistrate, Ballantine was educated at St Paul's School, and called to the Bar in 1834.

Born Nataša Jovanović, Mićić graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School, and found employment as the clerk at the Užice Municipal Court during early 1990s.

London appearances included Michael Frayn's The Two of Us with Richard Briers at the Garrick, David Hare's Slag at the Royal Court, and Born Yesterday, directed by Tom Stoppard at Greenwich in 1973.

Royal interest in England began with Henry V ( reigned 1413 – 22 ) but it was Henry VIII ( reigned 1509 – 47 ) who made the biggest impact as a young monarch, playing the game with gusto at Hampton Court on a court he had built in 1530, when he was in his late thirties ( Born 28 June 1491 ) and on several other courts in his palaces.

Born in Wetzlar, Abel was the son of a procurator at the superior Court of Justice.

Born in Paris, he studied at the École des Chartes and the École de Droit, and starting early on a legal career he rose to be counsellor to the Court of Cassation ( 1877 to 1900 ).

Born in Quebec City, the son of Jean-Thomas Taschereau, lawyer and judge at the Supreme Court, and Marie-Louise-Joséphine Caron.

Born in Fuzhou, China as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court.

Born in London, he was the son of High Court judge Sir Maurice Lyell, and sculptor / designer Veronica Luard, the daughter of Lowes Luard, a contemporary of Augustus John and Walter Sickert.

Born near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, Seckford was educated at Cambridge, and in 1540 entered Gray's Inn, Thomas became one of Queen Elizabeth I ’ s two Masters in Ordinary of the Court of Requests which dealt with poor men ’ s causes.

Born into a Catholic family, Roger was the son of Sir James Palmer of Dorney Court, a Gentleman of the Bedchamber under King Charles I, and Catherine Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, 1st Baron Powis.

Born in Winona, Minnesota to William B. Mitchell, a future Minnesota Supreme Court Justice, he spent two years studying Electrical Engineering at Yale University before becoming interested in law.

Andrew Grant Douglas ( Born 1932 in Toledo, Ohio ) is a former Republican justice of the Ohio Supreme Court who served in that office from 1985 to 2002.

Born in Buffalo Gap, Texas, he was a lawyer and served as Justice of the Arizona State Supreme Court after his governorship in 1943.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, he was the son of Noah Haynes Swayne, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Sometimes called " Joe " Lentaigne. Born as elder son to Justice Benjamin Plunkett Lentaigne of Burma High Court, he was educated at the Oratory School, Edgebaston, Birmingham. His family had origins in Navan, County Meath in Ireland, but was domiciled in then Burma ( a part of British India ). He was one of two domiciled european officers serving Independent Indian army.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Marcus Doherty, an Irish-born judge of the Supreme Court for the Province of Quebec and Elizabeth ( O ' Halloran ) Doherty, Doherty was educated at St. Mary's ( Jesuit ) College and received a Bachelor of Laws degree from McGill University in 1876 winning the Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal, awarded to the student who completes the program with the most distinguished standing upon graduation.

Born July 4, 1934 in Delhi, India Mr. Justice Ajmal Mian son of Mr. Muhammad Mian took the Bachelor ’ s Degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Karachi in 1953 ; called to Degree of an Utter Barrister as a Member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn London on February 5, 1957 ; signed the Roll of Barristers of the High Court of Justice, Queen ’ s Bench Division, England on 6 February, 1957.

Born in Liverpool, England, he was the second Albertan ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pitlik directed episodes of 29 different series including situation comedies Barney Miller ( 102 episodes ), Wings ( 27 episodes ), Night Court ( 1 episode ), Mr. Belvedere ( 44 episodes ), Off the Rack ( 6 episodes ), Taxi ( 4 episodes ) and One Day at a Time ( 18 episodes ).

Born in Hampton Court Palace at 5 am on 24 July 1689, four days before his parents ' sixth wedding anniversary, he was baptised William Henry by Henry Compton, Bishop of London, on 27 July 1689.

Born near Wilson, North Carolina, Woodard attended private schools in Wilson County and studied law under Richmond Mumford Pearson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.